An empirical investigation of the g-index for 26 physicists in comparison with the h-index, the 4-index, and the R-index

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1513-1522

  Schreiber, Michael ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; DATA-SETS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; G VALUES; H INDEX; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; R VALUES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

CORRELATION METHODS;

EID: 47049088407     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20856     Document Type: Article

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